Saving Whole CD one file

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I store my music on my Computer Hard Drive.
I store the music by tracks (standard).
But also I store it as A whole CD file, A whole record side,
as one file, easier and safer than tracks when traveling.

This is easy when creating the files from records or Cassette Tape etc.
( just using the audio in system), then divide to get the tracks.

For CD’s it appears harder. Creating files for tracks is wickedly easy.
But Creating the track files straight through is much more difficult.

The only way I have found is to bring them in as a wave file, And then list them in Audacity and try and paste them back together to create one file. (laborious and slow)
One other way is to play them into Audacity using a CD player connected by Stereo cable, same as Records and tapes, but you lose a lot of the quality of using CD’s.

Hoping there is an easier and better way of achieving this. Any advice or suggestions.

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Posted already but forgot my Operating system etc.

My operating system is Windows 10 Home (full up to date Updates)
Audacity version - 2-3-2


Post by nzrabbitty » Mon Jun 17, 2019 7:23 am
I store my music on my Computer Hard Drive.
I store the music by tracks (standard).
But also I store it as A whole CD file, A whole record side,
as one file, easier and safer than tracks when traveling.

This is easy when creating the files from records or Cassette Tape etc.
( just using the audio in system), then divide to get the tracks.

For CD’s it appears harder. Creating files for tracks is wickedly easy.
But Creating the track files straight through is much more difficult.

The only way I have found is to bring them in as a wave file, And then list them in Audacity and try and paste them back together to create one file. (laborious and slow)
One other way is to play them into Audacity using a CD player connected by Stereo cable, same as Records and tapes, but you lose a lot of the quality of using CD’s.

Hoping there is an easier and better way of achieving this. Any advice or suggestions.
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  1. Launch Audacity
  2. “File menu > Import > Audio” and select all of the tracks that belong to the CD.

If the tracks are named in alpha-numeric order, then the tracks will be in the correct order (easiest), otherwise you will need to arrange the tracks into the correct order manually (see: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/audio_track_dropdown_menu.html#Moving_Tracks)

  1. “Ctrl + A” (Select All)
  2. “Tracks menu > Align Tracks > Align End to End”
  3. “File menu > Export ? Export as WAV”
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Thanks for that.
It was a great help.

After I finished Following your Instructions It seemed familiar.
Then I remembered that I had worked it out before way back in 2015.
The brain getting old I think.

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[u]EAC[/u] can rip a CD as a single WAV file and a cue sheet.